The Art of the Stone Age - 40000 Years of Stone Age Paintings

Art of the Stone Age was unknown until 1879 when the world-famous cave of Altamira was discovered. Then, little more than a half-century ago, interest in the art of Stone Age man arose. Each new discovery demonstrated that primitive man was not so «primitive» as we had thought that his art was sophisticated in many ways with a freshness and in immediacy of approach that the twentieth century might envy.